Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, October 1, 1993 TAG: 9310010239
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
RICHMOND - A state official on Thursday recommended approval of Virginia Power's plan to build a high-voltage transmission line through several Southside Virginia counties.
The 500-kilovolt line would begin at a coal-fired power plant under construction near Clover in Halifax County and end at a substation in Dinwiddie County.
State Corporation Commission Hearing Examiner Howard P. Anderson Jr. said, "There is a need for a transmission facility connecting the Clover Power Station to the Virginia Power transmission grid."
His report goes to the SCC, which will decide whether to approve the line.
The 75.5-mile line would run through Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Lunenburg and Brunswick counties. The project cost is about $33.2 million.
- Associated Press z
5 more counties added to drought relief area
RICHMOND - Five more counties have been declared federal drought disaster areas, making farmers eligible for low-interest loans from the federal government, Gov. Douglas Wilder said Thursday.
The declarations for Caroline, Goochland, King George, Lancaster and Russell counties bring to 10 the number of Virginia counties approved by Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy for disaster relief.
Counties previously granted disaster status were King and Queen, Augusta, Essex, King William and Middlesex.
Farmers in counties bordering the 10 that received disaster designations also will be able to apply for the low-interest loans.
- Associated Press
No one matches 6 to take Lotto jackpot
RICHMOND - No one correctly picked all six numbers to win the $5.1 million Lotto drawing, according to the Virginia Lottery.
The numbers drawn Wednesday were 3, 5, 7, 26, 30 and 35.
The estimated jackpot for Saturday's drawing is $7 million, said lottery spokeswoman Cherie Phaup.
In Wednesday's drawing, 107 players won $765 for correctly picking five of the six winning numbers. Prizes of $40 each went to 4,350 players with four correct numbers, and 66,894 players won a free play for picking half of the winning numbers.
- Associated Press
Colonial Williamsburg receives $25 million
WILLIAMSBURG - The founder of TV Guide has given Colonial Williamsburg $25 million for the construction and operation of a research and education center at the recreated 17th century colonial village.
About $12 million of the gift from Walter Annenberg and his wife, Lee, will go toward construction of the 33-acre center and $13 million to endow operating expenses of the new facility, Roger Thaler, Colonial Williamsburg vice president for external affairs, said Thursday.
Colonial Williamsburg already has raised $22 million of the $33 million necessary for construction of the center. The $22 million includes $5 million previously donated by the Annenbergs.
- Associated Press
Inmate files lawsuit in `orgy of violence'
NORFOLK - A Chesapeake jail inmate who was raped and beaten by fellow prisoners has filed a civil rights lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the city, Sheriff John R. Newhart and 13 jail employees.
The lawsuit, seeking $5 million in damages, stems from attacks last December on the "Thunderdome" cellblock, when another inmate also was beaten.
Both inmates filed a $24 million lawsuit in Chesapeake Circuit Court that is still pending. The federal lawsuit, filed Monday, was brought by an 18-year-old man who was being held in the jail for arraignment on theft-related charges when the attacks occurred.
The inmate contends he was subjected to a "3 1/2-hour orgy of violence."
He said he was "repeatedly anally penetrated" and forced to perform oral sex on more than 10 prisoners. He also said he was forced to run naked through a crowd of other inmates who beat him with shoes.
The suit alleges that the inmate kept screaming for help, but that no deputies came to investigate.
- Associated Press
Fun-stealing officer rehired at same rank
VIRGINIA BEACH - A police officer convicted of embezzling equipment from a youth athletic league has been rehired at his previous rank, but will have no chance to regain back pay for the 43 days he was suspended.
James Iman, 44, returned to work Monday at the rank of master police officer.
On Aug. 9, Iman was convicted on a misdemeanor count of embezzling $1,500 of equipment from the Plaza Recreation League. He had earlier been charged with a felony, but prosecutors downgraded the charge in exchange for Iman's plea.
He was sentenced to a year in jail, suspended on the condition he make restitution.
- Associated Press
Principals to be told of new kids' records
RICHMOND - A companion bill to a new state law that allows school disciplinary records to follow transferring students will require court clerks to notify superintendents when a student is convicted of a serious offense.
The Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals said during a public hearing of the Virginia Commission on Youth on Wednesday that the law, which went into effect July 1, and the companion bill are needed. The companion bill goes into effect next July.
Thomas E. Bailey, the association president and a Hampton principal, said he learned "only when detectives showed up" at his school that a student who had recently transferred in had been charged with murder and was a suspect in two robberies.
- Associated Press
Woman sues store for `utilizing peepholes'
NORFOLK - A woman has sued Montgomery Ward for $1.4 million, claiming she was watched in a store dressing room last year.
Patricia L. Carter of Virginia Beach said she was a customer in the Virginia Beach store Dec. 26 and was undressing when she heard noise above her and found peepholes.
The lawsuit claims Montgomery Ward "had actual or constructive knowledge that its employees . . . were engaged in a pattern or practice of routinely creating and utilizing peepholes for the unauthorized observation of customers."
- Associated Press
Football coach files school slander charge
WISE - The J.I. Burton High School football coach has filed a $3.69 million slander suit against the Norton City School superintendent and School Board.
The suit claims that Superintendent Al Armentrout and board members have slandered John Kuczko since 1985. The suit takes special note of a September 1992 incident in which Kuczko was charged with physically and verbally mistreating a student during gym class.
The suit claims Armentrout publicly stated that Kuczko had physically and verbally mistreated the 12-year-old, who was a student in Kuczko's seventh-grade gym class.
Kuczko was acquitted in October 1992 on a charge of assaulting the boy.
- Associated Press
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